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ever employed, Anse has taken a hand at
every position in the field, and Chicago's
loss of Kelly is due to him.
NOTES.

President Brown now feels assured that
the Colored League will be n success. All
that is required now is for the clubs to
stick together.
If indianapolis is admitted one hundred
and forty games will be played by the
League, but if Kansas City gets there only
one hundred and twenty-six can be play
ed, owing to the long jumps and loss OF
time in the Western circuit.
Latest quotations in the base ball mar
ket showed that it was in a very healthy
state. The indications are for brighter
and clearer times, stationary salary list
in some of the Eastern and Western towns,
with slight fluctuations generally before
the championship season opens.
Jim Harris Louisville combination
played twelve games in San Francisco,
three in Los Angeles and one in Sacramen-
to. The Sunday games were well attended,
but the biggest audience ever got together
on a week day was 1900, when john l..
Sullivan pitched. The average week day
attendance was 200, and the largest num-
Der at any one game was 5000.
A. J. Treat, OF Indianapolis, talked bus
mess in a very pointed manner. The en-
thusiasm which prevails among the popu-
lace of Hoosierdom, the superb accOmmo-
dation of the hotels, the railroad facilities,
the growth of the capital, together with
the possibility of Indianapolis outshining
Pittsburg as a natural gas center, were all
dwelt upon in IN eloquent manner, but
watch and wait"
Fields, of the Alleghenys, in a letter to
Manager Phillips, says: Il have been
practicing the past week. | can hit a high
or low ball, and do not anticipate any
trouble with the new rules. | used to
strike at q high ball until | joined the
BuffalOs, when Chapman made me strike
at a low ball. l am usingdumb bells, and
slugging every night. | am anxious 10
get out for field practice"
The American Association will, at ITS
coming schedule meeting in Cleveland,
take some definite action In respect 70
forming on a business basis. The guar
antee plan, which has been strongly adj
vocated, will then be adopted, or some
other plan equally as good will be put IN
operation before the opening OF the season:
Nearly all the representatives OF the dill
ferent clubs are heartily in favor of form
ing a business copartDership OF some kind
that will give the public and themselves
some assurance that the American ASsocla-
ton OF Base Ball Clubs has come to stay
forever.
In 1879 Kelly ranked fourth among
League batsmen, with an average Of .3i9.
In 1882 he ranked eighth among batsmen,
with .3O5, and sixth as fielder, with .SS1.
In 1885 he stood fifteenth rs a batter, with
.2S7, and twenty-tirst as fielder, with SOS;
as a catcher he was sixteenth on the list,
with 100. Last season Nick Young, in
his official figures, gives him something
over $40 and the first place as batter. He
stood tenth among the catchers, with 500,
and seventeenth among right flelders, with
III. As an all-round player he ranked
No. 2i, with 500. These figures seem in
consistent with the title bestowed upon
him as the prince of players, yet neverthe-
less il is well merited.